DevToolsDigest: Issue #355
This week's digest includes news and resources from Chainguard, SigNoz, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
Observability Is Broken: It’s Time to Build Something Better
Observability started as a way to understand systems. Somewhere along the way, it became a storage problem. It is time for a reset, a new foundation for how we capture and reason about signals.
GraphQA: Natural Language Graph Analysis Framework
GraphQA is a comprehensive graph analysis framework that transforms complex graph datasets into natural language conversations. It's essentially a graph algorithm engine with an AI interface that understands what you're asking.
Spacelift Intent Open Source Project
Intent is an MCP Server, that lets infrastructure engineers describe what they need in natural language and provisions it directly through calling provider APIs — skipping the Terraform/OpenTofu configuration layer entirely.
Industry Research
2026 Engineering Reality Report
Throughout the report, you’ll find a detailed look at the tradeoffs shaping modern engineering: where teams are gaining ground, where friction remains, and what engineers themselves say they value most.
Why Prompt Engineering Should Not Be Taken Seriously
As ChatGPT appeared, a lot of so-called AI experts started calling themselves “prompt engineers.” They flooded LinkedIn and Twitter with their “top 10 prompts,” online prompt engineering courses, downloadable PDFs, and other recycled content.
LLM Observability: OpenTelemetry Should Be The Standard
OpenTelemetry is the industry standard. It has libraries for every language, it's production-ready, and it's widely adopted. But it was built for traditional applications, not AI workflows.
Developer Venture News
Reo.Dev Raises $4M Seed for AI-Native Dev GTM Platform
Devs are the new buyers of the AI era, but GTM teams have largely been left blind to their adoption signals. Reo.Dev makes developer intent visible so that devtool companies can finally align with how developers actually evaluate and buy software.
Unikraft Raises $6M to Support AI-Driven Cloud Workloads
Unikraft is the first truly millisecond-native, highly scalable cloud platform. Developed in 2017 at NEC Laboratories Europe by computer science researchers, Unikraft was built to address the inherent instability and significant cost of workloads by unlocking the potential of a little-used technology called unikernels.